Raquel Ruivo is presently a contracted Researcher in Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR-UP), Co-PI of the Endocrine Disruptors and Emergent Contaminants team, and collaborator of the Animal and Genetics team. RR holds a PhD in Sciences de la vie, biologie, santé from the Université Paris-Sud Faculté de Médecine (2009) and a Biology degree (Licenciatura) from the Universidade de Aveiro (2005). In 2015, RR completed a postgraduate course in Viticulture and Oenology from the Universidade do Porto and is currently attending the 3rd year of a Bachelor in History from Universidade de Coimbra. RR has published 55 articles in international peer-reviewed journals (h index 15; 852 citations), including high impact journals such as PNAS, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Nucleic Acids Research or Current Biology; and co-authored 1 book chapter and participated in 1 registered patent. RR participates and/or participated as supervisor/co-supervisor in 4 PhDs, including 1 international PhD (co-tutorship), and 4 MSc theses (3 MSc concluded). RR also supervised 21 works of course completion of LSc/BSc and 3 bachelor-level volunteer internships. RR participated/participates as Principal Investigator in 2 projects, including 1 transnational cooperation project, and as Co-Principal Investigator in 2 national projects, as well as Researcher in 11 projects, including 3 international collaborations (Norway & France). RR presented her research in international meetings (Vienna Austria, Rennes France, Uppsala Sweden, Galway Ireland, Porto, Portugal). RR contributes regularly to the CIIMAR Educational Program and Outreach activities, both through content development and presentation to schools and to the general public. Works in the areas of Natural sciences with emphasis on Biological Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, Molecular Biology and Earth and Environmental Sciences.

Personal identification

Full name
Raquel Ruivo

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
1614-5EAA-2361
ORCID iD
0000-0003-2412-8730
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=F6CLqEsAAAAJ&hl=en
Scopus Author Id
16444846000

Addresses

  • CIIMAR-Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental. Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões, Av. General Norton de Matos s/n, 4450-208, Matosinhos, Matosinhos, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Evolutionary Biology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology
  • Natural sciences - Earth and Environmental Sciences - Environmental Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Degree Classification
2024
Ongoing
História (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
17
2015
Concluded
Viticultura e Enologia (Especialização pós-licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
16
2009/09/24
Concluded
Sciences de la vie, biologie, santé (Doctorat)
Major in Biologie cellulaire, moleculaire et sciences de la santé
Université Paris-Sud Faculté de Médecine, France
"Molecular physiology and pathophysiology of two lysosomal transporters: sialin and cystinosin." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Mention très honorable avec les félicitations du j
2005
Concluded
Biology/Biologia (Licenciatura)
Major in Investigação
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"BSc Thesis: Amyloid beta aggregation and APP processing; Professional Internship: Molecular analysis of the proteins defective in two classes of lysosomal transport diseases: sialin and NPC1" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2018/05/15 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2011/03/01 - 2018/05/15 Postdoc (Research) Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2005/09/01 - 2009/11/24 Researcher (Research) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
2004/10/01 - 2005/06/30 Research Trainee (Research) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
2003/10/01 - 2004/07/31 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Grant

Designation Funders
2011/03/01 - 2017/10/31 RETINOID SIGNALLING IN TELEOST FISH REPRODUCTION: MECHANISM, MODULATION AND EVOLUTION
SFRH/BPD/72519/2010
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
2008/01/31 - 2009/11/24 MOLECULAR PHYSIOPATHOLOGY OF TWO LYSOSOMAL TRANSPORT DISORDERS: STUDY OF THE MEMBRANE PROTEINS CYSTINOSIN AND CLN7
SFRH/BD/42522/2007
PhD Student Fellow
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Concluded
2007/01/01 - 2007/12/31 Pharmacotherapy of Nonaka myophathy using synthetic sialic acid substrates of human sialin
Research Fellow
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
AFM
2006/01/01 - 2006/12/31 Pharmacotherapy of progressive myopathies with autophagic vacuoles
Research Fellow
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
AFM
Concluded
2004/01/10 - 2005/06/30 Molecular analysis of the proteins defective in two classes of lysosomal transport diseases: sialin and NPC1
PT/04/A/F/PL-125891
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
European Commission

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/03/01 - Current New models for the most frequent Mucolipidosis II-causing mutation using iPSCs and zebrafish: a crucial step towards the development of new therapies
2022.03836.PTDC
Researcher
Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge Porto, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Ongoing
2023 - Current In vitro BIoassays to identify and assess hazard of Phytopharmaceutical products in aquatic ecosystems (BIP)
2023/EST/047
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture l'Alimentation et l'Environnement: RiverLy, France

Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Anses
Ongoing
2023/01/01 - 2026/12/31 Whales and polar bear in a petri dish: decoding marine mammal toxicology through in vitro and in silico approaches - Marma-detox
334739 - FORSKER22
Researcher
Universitetet i Bergen, Norway

Akvaplan-niva AS, Norway

Norsk Polarinstitutt, Norway

UiT Norges arktiske universitet, Norway

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain

University of California Berkeley College of Letters and Science, United States

Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal

Medical University of South Carolina, United States

Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelige universitet, Norway
Norges forskningsråd
Ongoing
2022/01 - 2026/01 Nuclear receptor signaling and endocrine disruption in a mollusk: the power of functional experiments – MusMod4EDC
Researcher
Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement de Villefranche-sur-Mer, France

Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Agence nationale de la recherche
Ongoing
2023/03/31 - 2024/12/31 Gammarid Nuclear Receptors: receptor-based tools for endocrine disruption assessment
2022.15039.CBM
Principal investigator
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal

Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture l'Alimentation et l'Environnement: RiverLy, France
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Ongoing
2022/01/01 - 2024/12/31 Sustainable antifouling agents: from grape wastes to the sea with the green chemistry leading the way.
PTDC/CTA-AMB/0853/2021
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Ongoing
2023 - 2024 Exploring Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: New Methods and Strategies to Improve Environmental Hazard and Risk Assessment of Key Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CECs)
2022.02922.PTDC
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Ongoing
2023 - 2024 Uma perspectiva multisensorial ómica, como podem as actividades humanas afectar os órgãos sensoriais dos peixes de profundidade?
2022.04750.PTDC
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Ongoing
2020/10 - 2023/09 ATLANTIDA - Platform for the monitoring of the North Atlantic ocean and tools for the sustainable exploitation of the marine resources
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
European Regional Development Fund
Ongoing
2019/11/01 - 2022/10/31 Trans-phyletic obesogenic responses: from epigenetic modules to transgenerational environmental impacts
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Ongoing
2021 - 2022 Ocean3R: Reduce pressures, restore and regenerate the NW-Portuguese ocean and waters
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
European Regional Development Fund
Ongoing
2018/07/02 - 2021/12/01 The Metazoan Endocrine System in the Anthropocene Epoch: from EVOlution to DISruption
PTDC/CTA-AMB/31342/2017
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Concluded
2020/01 - 2021/12 THECA: Integrated testing tool to identify and quantify new endocrine disrupting chemicals in crustaceans
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal

Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture l'Alimentation et l'Environnement: RiverLy, France
Anses
Concluded
2019/12/10 - 2021/07/25 Biosensor and biomimetic recognition element based devices for detection and separation of cyanobacteria metabolites with ecotoxicological and therapeutical applications
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Concluded
2016/01/01 - 2018/12/31 CORAL - Sustainable Ocean Exploitation: Tools and Sensors
NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000036
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
European Regional Development Fund
Concluded
2013/07/01 - 2014/12/31 The Lophotrochozoan Ecdysone Receptor: long-lived disruption pathways?
EXPL/MAR-EST/1540/2012
Principal investigator
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Concluded

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Fonseca, Elza; Ruivo, Raquel; Miguel M. Santos; C. Castro, L. Filipe. Corresponding author: C. Castro, L. Filipe. "1.4. Endocrine Disruption Chemicals and their Mode of Action: the case of Nuclear Receptors and the evolution of the Metazoa". In Environmental Contaminants and Endocrine Health, edited by Oliana Carnevali; Gary Hardiman. Academic Press, 2023.
    In press
Conference abstract
  1. Ruivo, Raquel. "Obesogens: molecular signaling pathways in fish". Paper presented in XV European Congress of Ichthyology, 2015.
    10.3389/conf.FMARS.2015.03.00245
  2. Ruivo, Raquel. "Isolation of key retinoid signalling and metabolic modules in invertebrates". Paper presented in International Meeting on Marine Research, 2014.
    10.3389/conf.FMARS.2014.02.00095
Conference poster
  1. Pinto, Rui; Ruivo, Raquel; Miguel, Fonseca; Stiller, Josefin ; Fonseca, Rute ; C. Castro, L. Filipe. "From PseudoChecker2.0 to PseudoViz: A story of gene loss". Paper presented in Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Meeting 2023, 2023.
  2. Sousa, João; Degli-Esposti, Davide; Geffard, Olivier; Chaumot, Arnaud; C. Castro, L. Filipe; Miguel M. Santos; Neuparth, Teresa; Ruivo, Raquel. "Risk assessment in the Anthropochemical era: A receptor-based tool for the identification of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals". Paper presented in 32ndEuropean Society for Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology (ESCPB), 2022.
  3. Biltes, Rita; Páscoa, Inês; Sousa, João; Vasconcelos, Vitor; C. Castro, L. Filipe; Preto, Marco; Ruivo, Raquel; Cunha, I. "CAN CYANOBACTERIA HELP OUT LIPID METABOLISM AND INFLAMMATORY DISORDERS?". Paper presented in XII European Conference on Marine Natural Products, 2021.
  4. Páscoa, I.; Biltes R.; Sousa J.P.; Vasconcelos V.; Castro, L.F.C.; Preto M.; Lopes-Marques, M.; Ruivo, Raquel; Cunha I.. "A multiplex vector based cell sensor for PPARs related drug discovery". Paper presented in Genomics for a Blue Economy Workshop, 2019.
  5. Fonseca, E.S.S.; Ruivo, Raquel; Lopes-Marques, M.; Fonseca M.; Machado, A.M.; Santos M.M.; Castro, L.F.C.. "The “Neglected”: the “insightful” repertoire of nuclear receptors in Protostomes". Paper presented in 7th Euro Evo Devo, 2018.
  6. Oliveira, D.; Castro, L.F.C.; Ruivo, Raquel. "Cobalamin receptors in vertebrates: transitions for novel functions?". Paper presented in 6th Euro Evo Devo, 2016.
  7. Ruivo, Raquel; Lopes-Marques, Mónica; Castro J.; Páscoa, I.; Freitas R.; Monteiro A.; Santos, M.M.; Castro, L.F.C.. "The evolution of the RDH10 gene family: duplication and lineage-specific loss of a novel member". Paper presented in 5th Euro Evo Devo, 2014.
  8. Páscoa, I.; Lopes-Marques, Mónica; Castro, L.F.C.; Santos, M.M.; Ruivo, Raquel. "The Lophotrocozoan Ecdysone Receptor: novel or illusive disruption pathways?". Paper presented in 27th Conference of European Comparative Endocrinologists, 2014.
  9. Páscoa, I.; Lopes-Marques, M.; Castro, L.F.C.; Santos, M.M.; Ruivo, Raquel. "Steroid-signalling evolution: The Lophotrochozoan Ecdysone Receptor". Paper presented in 5th Euro Evo Devo, 2014.
  10. Lopes-Marques, M.; Ruivo, Raquel; Sainath, S.B.; Capitao, A.M.F.; Santos, M.M.; Castro, L.F.C.. "A PPAR orthologue from a lophotrocozoan mollusc: insights into the evolution of nuclear receptors". Paper presented in 27th Conference of European Comparative Endocrinologists, 2014.
  11. Ruivo, Raquel; Lopes-Marques, Mónica; Santos, M.M.; Castro, L.F.C.. "Evolutionary study of RDH10 gene family reveals a novel member retained in ectothermic vertebrates". Paper presented in XIV Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, 2013.
  12. Sharifi, A.; Sagné, C.; Ruivo, Raquel; Debacker, C.; Bellenchi, G.C.; Junot C.; Gasnier, B.. "Characterization of CLN7, a lysosomal transporter associated with early-onset neurodegeneration". Paper presented in 9ème Colloque de la Société des Neurosciences, 2009.
  13. Sharifi, A.; Sagné, C.; Ruivo, Raquel; Masson J.; Emerit M.; Debacker, C.; Bellenchi, G.C.; Gasnier, B.. "Intracellular localization and biochemical characterization of CLN7, a putative lysosomal transporter associated with late-infantile ceroid lipofuscinosis". Paper presented in 12th International Congress on Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses, 2009.
  14. Ruivo, Raquel; Bellenchi, G.C.; Zifarelli, G.; Sagné, C.; Anne, C.; Debacker, C.; Pusch, M.; Supplisson, S.; Gasnier, B.. "Electrophysiological analysis of the lysosomal cystine transporter Cystinosin". Paper presented in 1st Portuguese-Spanish-English Joint Biophysics Congress, 2008.
  15. Ruivo, Raquel; Bellenchi, G.C.; Sagné, C.; Anne, C.; Supplisson, S.; Gasnier, B.. "Electrophysiological analysis of the lysosomal cystine transporter, cystinosin". Paper presented in 18th Ion Channel Meeting, 2007.
  16. Aubrey, K.R.; Rossi, F.M.; Ruivo, Raquel; Gasnier, B.; Supplisson, S.. "The transporters GlyT2 and VIAAT cooperate to determine the vesicular glycinergic phenotype". Paper presented in Neuroscience, 2007.
  17. Bellenchi, G.C.; Ruivo, Raquel; Sagné, C.; Supplisson, S.; Gasnier, B.. "Electrophysiological analysis of the lysosomal cystine transporter, a protein defective in cystinosis". Paper presented in Transporters 2006, 2006.
Journal article
  1. Machado, André M.; Samico, Rodrigo; Domingues, Marcos; Hagemann, Andreas; Valente, Luísa M.P.; Malzahn, Arne M.; Gomes-dos-Santos, André; et al. "A whole-body transcriptome assembly of the annelid worm Hediste diversicolor". Marine Genomics 74 (2024): 101084. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margen.2024.101084.
    10.1016/j.margen.2024.101084
  2. Pinto, Bernardo; Machado, André M.; Cordeiro, J. Miguel; Kolbadinezhad, Salman Malakpour; Fonseca, Elza; Andrade, José Pedro; Palma, Jorge; et al. "Extensive gene loss parallels kidney aglomerulism in Syngnathidae". Current Biology 33 20 (2023): R1044-R1046. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.08.045.
    10.1016/j.cub.2023.08.045
  3. Inês Páscoa; Rita Biltes; João Sousa; Marco Aurélio Correia Preto; Vitor Vasconcelos; Luís Filipe Castro; Raquel Ruivo; Isabel Cunha. "A Multiplex Molecular Cell-Based Sensor to Detect Ligands of PPARs: An Optimized Tool for Drug Discovery in Cyanobacteria". Sensors (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/s23031338.
    10.3390/s23031338
  4. Neves, Ana R.; Gomes, Luciana C.; Faria, Sara I.; Sousa, João; Ruivo, Raquel; Páscoa, Inês; Pinto, Madalena; et al. "Antifouling Marine Coatings with a Potentially Safer and Sustainable Synthetic Polyphenolic Derivative". Marine Drugs 20 8 (2022): 507. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/md20080507.
    10.3390/md20080507
  5. Machado, André M.; Gomes-dos-Santos, André; Fonseca, Miguel M.; da Fonseca, Rute R.; Veríssimo, Ana; Felício, Mónica; Capela, Ricardo; et al. "A genome assembly of the Atlantic chub mackerel (Scomber colias): a valuable teleost fishing resource". Gigabyte 2022 (2022): 1-21. http://dx.doi.org/10.46471/gigabyte.40.
    10.46471/gigabyte.40
  6. Inês Páscoa; Elza Fonseca; Renato Ferraz; André M. Machado; Francisca Conrado; Raquel Ruivo; Isabel Cunha; Luís Filipe C. Castro. "The Preservation of PPAR¿ Genome Duplicates in Some Teleost Lineages: Insights into Lipid Metabolism and Xenobiotic Exploitation". Genes (2022): https://doi.org/10.3390/genes13010107.
    10.3390/genes13010107
  7. Neuparth, T.; Alves, N.; Machado, A.M.; Pinheiro, M.; Montes, R.; Rodil, R.; Barros, S.; et al. "Neuroendocrine pathways at risk? Simvastatin induces inter and transgenerational disruption in the keystone amphipod Gammarus locusta". Aquatic Toxicology 244 (2022): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85123797293&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.aquatox.2022.106095
  8. Torres, Tiago; Barros, Susana; Neuparth, Teresa; Ruivo, Raquel; Santos, Miguel Machado. "Using zebrafish embryo bioassays to identify chemicals modulating the regulation of the epigenome: a case study with simvastatin". Environmental Science and Pollution Research (2022): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/56857472/.
    10.1007/S11356-022-23683-5
  9. Ruivo, Raquel; Sousa, João; Neuparth, Teresa; Geffard, Olivier; Chaumot, Arnaud; Castro, L.; Degli-Esposti, Davide; Santos, Miguel. "From Extrapolation to Precision Chemical Hazard Assessment: The Ecdysone Receptor Case Study". Toxics 10 1 (2021): 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxics10010006.
    10.3390/toxics10010006
  10. Torres, Tiago; Ruivo, Raquel; Santos, Miguel Machado. "Epigenetic biomarkers as tools for chemical hazard assessment: Gene expression profiling using the model Danio rerio". Science of The Total Environment 773 (2021): 144830. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144830.
    Published • 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144830
  11. Valente, R.; Alves, L.Q.; Nabais, M.; Alves, F.; Sousa-Pinto, I.; Ruivo, R.; Castro, L.F.C.. "Convergent Cortistatin losses parallel modifications in circadian rhythmicity and energy homeostasis in Cetacea and other mammalian lineages". Genomics 113 1 (2021): 1064-1070. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85095851915&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.ygeno.2020.11.002
  12. Valente, R.; Alves, F.; Sousa-Pinto, I.; Ruivo, R.; Castro, L.F.C.. "Functional or Vestigial? The Genomics of the Pineal Gland in Xenarthra". Journal of Molecular Evolution 89 8 (2021): 565-575. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85111776438&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s00239-021-10025-1
  13. Capitão, A.M.F.; Lopes-Marques, M.; Páscoa, I.; Sainath, S.B.; Hiromori, Y.; Matsumaru, D.; Nakanishi, T.; et al. "An ancestral nuclear receptor couple, PPAR-RXR, is exploited by organotins". Science of the Total Environment 797 (2021): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85110607843&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149044
  14. Alves, L.Q.; Ruivo, R.; Valente, R.; Fonseca, M.M.; Machado, A.M.; Plön, S.; Monteiro, N.; et al. "A drastic shift in the energetic landscape of toothed whale sperm cells". Current Biology 31 16 (2021): 3648-3655.e9. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85111724679&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.cub.2021.05.062
  15. Elza Fonseca; Raquel Ruivo; Débora Borges; João N. Franco; Miguel M. Santos; L. Filipe C. Castro. "Of Retinoids and Organotins: The Evolution of the Retinoid X Receptor in Metazoa". Biomolecules (2020): https://doi.org/10.3390/biom10040594.
    10.3390/biom10040594
  16. Capitão, A.; Lopes-Marques, M.; Páscoa, I.; Ruivo, R.; Mendiratta, N.; Fonseca, E.; Castro, L.F.C.; Santos, M.M.. "The Echinodermata PPAR: Functional characterization and exploitation by the model lipid homeostasis regulator tributyltin". Environmental Pollution 263 (2020): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85082755161&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.envpol.2020.114467
  17. Espregueira Themudo, G.; Alves, L.Q.; Machado, A.M.; Lopes-Marques, M.; da Fonseca, R.R.; Fonseca, M.; Ruivo, R.; Castro, L.F.C.. "Losing Genes: The Evolutionary Remodeling of Cetacea Skin". Frontiers in Marine Science 7 (2020): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85095809889&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3389/fmars.2020.592375
  18. Neuparth, T.; Machado, A.M.; Montes, R.; Rodil, R.; Barros, S.; Alves, N.; Ruivo, R.; et al. "Transcriptomic data on the transgenerational exposure of the keystone amphipod Gammarus locusta to simvastatin". Data in Brief 32 (2020): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85090222042&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.dib.2020.106248
  19. Neuparth, T.; Machado, A.M.; Montes, R.; Rodil, R.; Barros, S.; Alves, N.; Ruivo, R.; et al. "Transgenerational inheritance of chemical-induced signature: A case study with simvastatin". Environmental International 144 (2020): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85089820885&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.envint.2020.106020
  20. Fonseca, E.; Machado, A.M.; Vilas-Arrondo, N.; Gomes-dos-Santos, A.; Veríssimo, A.; Esteves, P.; Almeida, T.; et al. "Cartilaginous fishes offer unique insights into the evolution of the nuclear receptor gene repertoire in gnathostomes". General and Comparative Endocrinology 295 (2020): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85086574669&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.ygcen.2020.113527
  21. Alves, L.Q.; Ruivo, R.; Fonseca, M.M.; Lopes-Marques, M.; Ribeiro, P.; Castro, L.F.C.. "PseudoChecker: an integrated online platform for gene inactivation inference". Nucleic acids research 48 W1 (2020): W321-W331. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85087320467&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1093/nar/gkaa408
  22. Elza S. S. Fonseca; Youhei Hiromori; Yoshifumi Kaite; Raquel Ruivo; João N. Franco; Tsuyoshi Nakanishi; Miguel M. Santos; L. Filipe C. Castro. "An Orthologue of the Retinoic Acid Receptor (RAR) Is Present in the Ecdysozoa Phylum Priapulida". Genes 10 12 (2019): 985-985. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes10120985.
    10.3390/genes10120985
  23. Luís Q. Alves; Juliana Alves; Rodrigo Ribeiro; Raquel Ruivo; Filipe Castro. "The dopamine receptor D5 gene shows signs of independent erosion in toothed and baleen whales". PeerJ (2019): https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7758.
    10.7717/peerj.7758
  24. Elza S. S. Fonseca; Raquel Ruivo; André M. Machado; Francisca Conrado; Boon-Hui Tay; Byrappa Venkatesh; Miguel M. Santos; L. Filipe C. Castro. "Evolutionary Plasticity in Detoxification Gene Modules: The Preservation and Loss of the Pregnane X Receptor in Chondrichthyes Lineages". International Journal of Molecular Sciences 20 9 (2019): 2331-2331. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms20092331.
    10.3390/ijms20092331
  25. Lopes-Marques, Mónica; Machado, André M; Alves, Luís Q; Fonseca, Miguel M; Barbosa, Susana; Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S; Rasmussen, Marianne Helene; et al. "Complete inactivation of sebum-producing genes parallels the loss of sebaceous glands in Cetacea". Molecular Biology and Evolution (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msz068.
    10.1093/molbev/msz068
  26. Ana André; Raquel Ruivo; Elza Fonseca; Elsa Froufe; L. Filipe C. Castro; Miguel M. Santos. "The retinoic acid receptor (RAR) in molluscs: Function, evolution and endocrine disruption insights". Aquatic Toxicology (2019): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquatox.2019.01.002.
    10.1016/j.aquatox.2019.01.002
  27. Diogo Oliveira; André M. Machado; Tiago Cardoso; Mónica Lopes-Marques; L. C. Castro; Raquel Ruivo. "Identification of a Novel Nucleobase-Ascorbate Transporter Family Member in Fish and Amphibians". Fishes (2019): https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes4010001.
    10.3390/fishes4010001
  28. Lopes-Marques, M.; Ruivo, R.; Alves, L.Q.; Sousa, N.; Machado, A.M.; Castro, L.F.C.. "The singularity of cetacea behavior parallels the complete inactivation of melatonin gene modules". Genes 10 2 (2019): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85062361112&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3390/genes10020121
  29. Lopes-Marques, M.; Alves, L.Q.; Fonseca, M.M.; Secci-Petretto, G.; Machado, A.M.; Ruivo, R.; Castro, L.F.C.. "Convergent inactivation of the skin-specific C-C motif chemokine ligand 27 in mammalian evolution". Immunogenetics 71 5-6 (2019): 363-372. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85065387261&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s00251-019-01114-z
  30. Machado, A.M.; Tørresen, O.K.; Kabeya, N.; Couto, A.; Petersen, B.; Felício, M.; Campos, P.F.; et al. "“Out of the Can”: A Draft Genome Assembly, Liver Transcriptome, and Nutrigenomics of the European Sardine, Sardina pilchardus". Genes 9 10 (2018): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85055508164&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3390/genes9100485
  31. Lopes-Marques, M.; Kabeya, N.; Qian, Y.; Ruivo, R.; Santos, M.M.; Venkatesh, B.; Tocher, D.R.; Castro, L.F.C.; Monroig, O.. "Retention of fatty acyl desaturase 1 (fads1) in Elopomorpha and Cyclostomata provides novel insights into the evolution of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis in vertebrates". BMC Evolutionary Biology 18 1 (2018): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85053548417&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1186/s12862-018-1271-5
  32. Ruivo, R.; Capitão, A.; Castro, L.F.C.; Santos, M.M.. "The cycling gonad: retinoic-acid synthesis and degradation patterns during adult zebrafish Danio rerio oogenesis". Journal of Fish Biology 92 4 (2018): 1051-1064. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85042221550&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/jfb.13564
  33. Lopes-Marques, M.; Machado, A.M.; Barbosa, S.; Fonseca, M.M.; Ruivo, R.; Castro, L.F.C.. "Cetacea are natural knockouts for IL20". Immunogenetics (2018): 1-7. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85049685628&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s00251-018-1071-5
  34. Santos, M.M.; Ruivo, R.; Capitão, A.; Fonseca, E.; Castro, L.F.C.. "Identifying the gaps: Resources and perspectives on the use of nuclear receptor based-assays to improve hazard assessment of emerging contaminants". Journal of Hazardous Materials (2018): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85046755659&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.jhazmat.2018.04.076
  35. Lopes-Marques, M.; Machado, A.M.; Ruivo, R.; Fonseca, E.; Carvalho, E.; Castro, L.F.C.. "Expansion, retention and loss in the Acyl-CoA synthetase “Bubblegum” (Acsbg) gene family in vertebrate history". Gene 664 (2018): 111-118. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85046149670&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.gene.2018.04.058
  36. Capitao, A.M.F.; Lopes-Marques, M.S.; Ishii, Y.; Ruivo, R.; Fonseca, E.S.S.; Páscoa, I.; Jorge, R.P.; et al. "Evolutionary Exploitation of Vertebrate Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor ¿ by Organotins". Environmental Science and Technology 52 23 (2018): 13951-13959. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85057806748&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1021/acs.est.8b04399
  37. André, A.; Ruivo, R.; Capitão, A.; Froufe, E.; Páscoa, I.; Costa Castro, L.F.; Santos, M.M.. "Cloning and functional characterization of a retinoid X receptor orthologue in Platynereis dumerilii: An evolutionary and toxicological perspective". Chemosphere 182 (2017): 753-761. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85019357772&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.05.064
  38. Fonseca, E.; Ruivo, R.; Lopes-Marques, M.; Zhang, H.; Santos, M.M.; Venkatesh, B.; Castro, L.F.C.. "LXRa and LXRß nuclear receptors evolved in the common ancestor of gnathostomes". Genome Biology and Evolution 9 1 (2017): 222-230. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85016272098&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1093/gbe/evw305
  39. Lopes-Marques, M.; Ruivo, R.; Fonseca, E.; Teixeira, A.; Castro, L.F.C.. "Unusual loss of chymosin in mammalian lineages parallels neo-natal immune transfer strategies". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 116 (2017): 78-86. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85028730387&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.ympev.2017.08.014
  40. Santos, M.M.; Ruivo, R.; Lopes-Marques, M.; Torres, T.; de los Santos, C.B.; Castro, L.F.C.; Neuparth, T.. "Statins: An undesirable class of aquatic contaminants?". Aquatic Toxicology 174 (2016): 1-9. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84958162577&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.aquatox.2016.02.001
  41. Monroig, Ó.; Lopes-Marques, M.; Navarro, J.C.; Hontoria, F.; Ruivo, R.; Santos, M.M.; Venkatesh, B.; Tocher, D.R.; C. Castro, L.F.. "Evolutionary functional elaboration of the Elovl2/5 gene family in chordates". Scientific Reports 6 (2016): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84955439147&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1038/srep20510
  42. Cruzeiro, C.; Lopes-Marques, M.; Ruivo, R.; Rodrigues-Oliveira, N.; Santos, M.M.; Rocha, M.J.; Rocha, E.; Castro, L.F.C.. "A mollusk VDR/PXR/CAR-like (NR1J) nuclear receptor provides insight into ancient detoxification mechanisms". Aquatic Toxicology 174 (2016): 61-69. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84958999112&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.aquatox.2016.02.007
  43. Gesto, M.; Ruivo, R.; Páscoa, I.; André, A.; Castro, L.F.C.; Santos, M.M.. "Retinoid level dynamics during gonad recycling in the limpet Patella vulgata". General and Comparative Endocrinology 225 (2016): 142-148. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84949570943&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.ygcen.2015.10.017
  44. nica Lopes-Marques, M.; Ruivo, R.; Delgado, I.; Wilson, J.M.; Aluru, N.; Castro, L.F.C.. "Basal gnathostomes provide unique insights into the evolution of vitamin B12 binders". Genome Biology and Evolution 7 2 (2015): 457-464. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84928233861&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1093/gbe/evu289
  45. Lopes-Marques, M.; Delgado, I.L.S.; Ruivo, R.; Torres, Y.; Sainath, S.B.; Rocha, E.; Cunha, I.; Santos, M.M.; Castro, L.F.C.. "The origin and diversity of Cpt1 genes in vertebrate species". PLoS ONE 10 9 (2015): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84947999067&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0138447
  46. André, A.; Ruivo, R.; Gesto, M.; Castro, L.F.C.; Santos, M.M.. "Retinoid metabolism in invertebrates: When evolution meets endocrine disruption". General and Comparative Endocrinology 208 (2014): 134-145. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84907519414&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.ygcen.2014.08.005
  47. Henriques, A.G.; Oliveira, J.M.; Gomes, B.; Ruivo, R.; Da Cruz E Silva, E.F.; Da Cruz E Silva, O.A.B.. "Complexing Aß prevents the cellular anomalies induced by the peptide alone". Journal of Molecular Neuroscience 53 4 (2014): 661-668. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84905085258&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s12031-014-0233-7
  48. Pietrancosta, N.; Anne, C.; Prescher, H.; Ruivo, R.; Sagné, C.; Debacker, C.; Bertrand, H.-O.; et al. "Successful prediction of substrate-binding pocket in SLC17 transporter sialin". Journal of Biological Chemistry 287 14 (2012): 11489-11497. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84859491363&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1074/jbc.M111.313056
  49. Coelho, I.; Lima, D.; André, A.; Melo, C.; Ruivo, R.; Reis-Henriques, M.A.; Santos, M.M.; Castro, L.F.C.. "Molecular characterization of Adh3 from the mollusc Nucella lapillus: Tissue gene expression after tributyltin and retinol exposure". Journal of Molluscan Studies 78 4 (2012): 343-348. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84868033168&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1093/mollus/eys018
  50. Ruivo, R.; Bellenchi, G.C.; Chen, X.; Zifarelli, G.; Sagneá, C.; Debacker, C.; Pusch, M.; Supplisson, S.; Gasnier, B.. "Mechanism of proton/substrate coupling in the heptahelical lysosomal transporter cystinosin". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109 5 (2012): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84863173801&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1073/pnas.1115581109
  51. Sharifi, A.; Kousi, M.; Sagné, C.; Bellenchi, G.C.; Morel, L.; Darmon, M.; Hulková, H.; et al. "Expression and lysosomal targeting of CLN7, a major facilitator superfamily transporter associated with variant late-infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis". Human Molecular Genetics 19 22 (2010): 4497-4514. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77958510027&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1093/hmg/ddq381
  52. Ruivo, R.; Anne, C.; Sagné, C.; Gasnier, B.. "Molecular and cellular basis of lysosomal transmembrane protein dysfunction". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Cell Research 1793 4 (2009): 636-649. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-62949241063&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.bbamcr.2008.12.008
  53. Ruivo, R.; Sharifi, A.; Boubekeur, S.; Morin, P.; Anne, C.; Debacker, C.; Graziano, J.-C.; Sagné, C.; Gasnier, B.. "Molecular pathogenesis of sialic acid storage diseases: Insight gained from four missense mutations and a putative polymorphism of human sialin". Biology of the Cell 100 9 (2008): 551-559. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-50949103503&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1042/BC20070166
  54. Aubrey, K.R.; Rossi, F.M.; Ruivo, R.; Alboni, S.; Bellenchi, G.C.; Le Goff, A.; Gasnier, B.; Supplisson, S.. "The transporters GlyT2 and VIAAT cooperate to determine the vesicular glycinergic phenotype". Journal of Neuroscience 27 23 (2007): 6273-6281. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-34249989057&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1024-07.2007
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Ruivo, Raquel. "Molecular physiology and pathophysiology of two lysosomal transporters: sialin and cystinosin". PhD, Université Paris-Sud Faculté de Médecine, 2009.

Intellectual property

Patent
  1. Guieu, Samuel; Vieira, Sandra; Silva, Artur; Rocha, João; Ruivo, Raquel; Dias, Roberto; Da Cruz E Silva, O.A.B.. 2021. "Fluorescent compounds, production methods and uses thereof". Portugal.
    Granted/Issued

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/10/25 The importance of being sampled: the case of metazoan nuclear receptors diversity in chemical hazard assessment International Conference on “Occupational and Environmental Health in the 21st Century: Strategies for Confronting a Global Crisis”
Collegium Ramazzini (Bologna, Italy)
2018/09 The downside of lighter bones: cetacean adaptations in the Anthropocene 31st Congress of the New European Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry
CIIMAR (Porto, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role
Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023/10 - Current DECIPHERING “MOBY-DICK”: COMPARATIVE GENOMICS OF PHYSETERIDAE AND KOGIIDAE AND THE ROLE OF GENE LOSS IN ADAPTATION
Co-supervisor
Mestrado em Ciências do Mar - Recursos Marinhos (Master)
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2023 - Current When less is more: the role of gene loss and the making of mammalian phenotypes
Co-supervisor
Biodiversidade, Genética e Evolução Acreditado (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2023 - Current Multilevel Testing and Assessment of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals: A Gammarid perspective
Supervisor
Contaminação e Toxicologia Ambientais (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal

Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
2021 - Current Contingency and Adaptation in the Anthropocene: xenobiotic-induced responses in Cetacea
Supervisor
Biologia (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2020 - Current MetaDef - The Evolution of the Chemical DEFensome in METAzoa
Co-supervisor
BIologia (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2016 - Current Linking epigenetic changes with transgenerational effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals and emerging pollutants
Co-supervisor
Biologia (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022/09 - 2023/09 Reproductive Genes in Pangolins: the role of gene loss
Supervisor
Biologia (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2021/09 - 2023/07/27 Chondricthyan Genomes and the evolution of physiology traits in vertebrate ancestry
Co-supervisor
Ciências do Mar - Recursos Marinhos (Master)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2022/10/01 - 2023/07/01 Contingency and Adaptation in the Anthropocene: xenobiotic-induced responses in Cetacea
Supervisor
Biologia (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022/09 - 2023/07/01 MiT/TFE Family of Transcription Factors in Invertebrates: from nutrient-sensing to environmental markers?
Supervisor
Biologia (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022/09 - 2023/07/01 When less is more: the role of gene loss in phenotypic diversification
Co-supervisor
Biology (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022/09 - 2023/07/01 How to lose a stomach: a striking case of convergent evolution in Vertebrates
Co-supervisor
Biologia (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022/09 - 2023/07/01 In vitro safety assessment of putative ecofriendly antifouling synthetic compounds.
Supervisor
Biologia (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2021/10 - 2022/09 The repertoire of Nuclear Receptors in Lungfishes and Hagfishes
Supervisor
Biologia (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2021/10 - 2022/07 The Neglected: Evolution of Endocrine Systems in Protostomes (Best Intership Project, CIIMAR Blue Young Talent Program 2022)
Co-supervisor
Biologia (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2021/10 - 2022/07 Gene erosion of Sebum-producing genes in Pangolins (Best Oral Communication Prize at the Investigação Jovem da U.Porto/IJUP 2022)
Co-supervisor
Biologia (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2021/10 - 2022/07 A de novo transcriptome assembly of the annelid worm Hediste diversicolor
Co-supervisor
Biologia (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2021 - 2022 Gammarid Nuclear Receptors: receptor-based tools for endocrine disruption assessment
Supervisor
Toxicologia e Contaminação Ambientais (Master)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2020 - 2021 The downside of lighter bones: cetacean adaptations in the Anthropocene
Co-supervisor
Biologia (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2020 - 2021 How evolution shaped present-day responses to contamination: resurrecting the Pregnane X Receptor of ancestral cetaceans
Supervisor
Ciências e Técnologias do Ambiente (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Université de Lausanne Faculté des Geosciences et de l'environnement, Switzerland
2018/09/15 - 2019/09/05 Gene loss in Cetacea Evolution: insights into behavioural endocrinology and adaptation
Supervisor
Biologia (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2018/09/15 - 2019/06/30 Gene loss in Chiroptera evolution: reproductive insights
Supervisor
Biologia (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2018/09/15 - 2019/06/30 When less is more: the role of gene loss in phenotypic diversification
Co-supervisor
Biologia (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2016 - 2017 The evolution of Vitamin B12 receptors and the rise of CNS complexity
Supervisor
Bioquímica (Master)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2015 - 2016 Cloning and Characterization of Two Lophotrochozoan Ecdysone Receptors
Supervisor
Biologia (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2015 - 2016 Subcellular localization of retinoid metabolizing RDH10 isoforms
Supervisor
Biologia (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2015 - 2016 Cloning and subcellular localization of the CD320 receptor in birds and marsupials
Supervisor
Bioquímica (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2014 - 2015 The evolution of Vitamin B12 receptors and the emergence of novel functions
Supervisor
Bioquímica (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2014 - 2014 Gametogenesis in teleosts: regulation and disruption
Supervisor
Biologia (Scientific initiation)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2014 - 2014 Gametogenesis in teleosts: regulation and disruption
Supervisor
Biologia (Scientific initiation)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2013 - 2014 The Evolution of Retinoid Orphan nuclear receptor (ROR) in Protostomes
Supervisor
Biologia (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2013 - 2014 Epic: Epigenetics and Contamination
Supervisor
2012 - 2013 Molecular tools for the study of the role of retinoids in gametogenesis
Supervisor
Bioquímica (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/09/01 - Current CIIMAR Open Day 2022 & 2023: development and demonstration of outreach activities for the general public, with a focus on children, on the topics of evolution, phylogeny, and environmental toxicology. CIIMAR Open Day, held yearly in September, is a science communication and outreach event reaching over 20 000 participants/year.
Exhibition
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2012 - Current Participation in CIIMAR Educational Program (2012-2022), for students from elementary to high school levels: 1) Content development and demonstration of hands-on activities on the subjects of "Ocean acidification", "Ocean pollution", "Phylogeny and tree building", "Evolution and natural selection"; 2) Lectures on "Phylogeny" and "Molecular Biology Techniques" for high school students; 3) Instructor on "Ocean Pollution" activities for elementary schools; 4) Participation in the "Talk to a scientist" meeting series.
Other
CIIMAR Educational offer
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2023/10/28 - 2023/10/28 Participation in Traversing European Ecosystems (TREC) expedition outreach activities (volunteer).
Exhibition
TREC exhibition
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2023/10/22 - 2023/10/25 International Conference on “Occupational and Environmental Health in the 21st Century: Strategies for Confronting a Global Crisis”
Conference
Occupational and Environmental Health in the 21st Century: Strategies for Confronting a Global Crisis
Collegium Ramazzini, Italy
2023/04/20 - 2023/04/23 Participation in "Mostra da UP": an event aimed mainly at primary and secondary school students, constituting itself as an open window to the discovery and knowledge of the different areas of action and research of the University, which brings together the most complete offer of programming of training in Portuguese higher education: https://mostra.up.pt/
Exhibition
Mostra da UP
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2021/06/14 - 2021/06/16 EMBO Virtual Workshop on Predicting evolution
Workshop
EMBO Virtual Workshop on Predicting evolution
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany
2020/09/21 - 2020/09/25 Comparative genomics course
Workshop
Comparative genomics
Physalia Courses, Germany
2020/01/25 - 2020/02/01 Public speaking workshop
Workshop
Public speaking workshop
UNAVE, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2019/09/16 - 2019/09/16 XVI Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Etologia (SPE2019)
Congress
XVI Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Etologia (SPE2019)
2019/09/14 - 2019/09/15 XV Encontro Nacional de Biologia Evolutiva
Meeting
XV Encontro Nacional de Biologia Evolutiva
2019/09/14 - 2019/09/14 Wikipedia for public scientific literacy and science teaching
Workshop
Wikipedia for public scientific literacy and science teaching
XV Encontro Nacional de Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal
2018/09/09 - 2018/09/12 31st Congress of the New European Society of Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Porto
Congress
31st Congress of the New European Society of Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology
2018/06/26 - 2018/06/29 The seventh meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology (EED) - Euro Evo Devo Galway 2018
Congress
Euro Evo Devo Galway 2018
2018/02/19 - 2018/03/02 Introduction to R language, basic statistics, general linear model, generalized linear models and generalized additive models.
Workshop
Course on Statistics and Programming with R for Biological Sciences
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2017/01/22 - 2017/02/04 Workshop on Phylogenomics - Theoretical and practical course on phylogenetics and phylogenomics,: orthology & paralogy, alignment & data matrices, phylogenetic approaches, maximum likelihood, Bayesian inference, divergence time estimation, hypothesis testing & model selection, species selection, gene gain & loss, species-tree estimation, phylogenetic networks (tools: python, ETE3, PASTA, TrimAl, phyutility, RAxML, IQtree, PhyML, RevBayes, PAML, CAFE, SVDquartets, Tree editing)
Workshop
Workshop on Phylogenomics
2016/07/26 - 2016/07/29 The sixth meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology (EED) - Euro Evo Devo Uppsala 2016
Congress
Euro Evo Devo Uppsala 2016
2014/08/25 - 2014/08/29 27th Conference of European Comparative Endocrinologists, Rennes (France)
Conference
27th Conference of European Comparative Endocrinologists
2014/07/22 - 2014/07/25 The fifth meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology (EED) - Euro Evo Devo Vienna 2014
Congress
Euro Evo Devo Vienna 2014
2013/08/14 - 2013/08/24 XIV Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology
Congress
XIV Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology
2013 - 2013 CEBT workshop - Practical approach using patented technologies - creativity, value proposition, business plan, market research, economic and financial analysis, intellectual property & technology transfer, marketing
Workshop
Technology based entrepreneurship workshop (CEBT)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2009 - 2009 Freelance article writing - level 1
Workshop
Freelance article writing - level 1
The University of British Columbia Extended Learning, Canada
2008/07/10 - 2008/07/13 1st Portuguese-Spanish-English Joint Biophysics Congress, Lisbon, Portugal.
Congress
1st Portuguese-Spanish-English Joint Biophysics Congress
2007/09/23 - 2007/09/26 18th Ion Channel Meeting, Presqu´île de Giens, France.
Congress
18th Ion Channel Meeting
2006/09/06 - 2006/09/09 Transporters 2006, Parma Italy
Congress
Transporters 2006

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2020/09/19 - 2020/09/19 Summer course: Lecture and tutorial "Nuclear Receptors as Toxicological Targets - Concepts and Methods" in the scope of "Curso Prático - Aplicação de modelos biológicos a estudos de ecotoxicologia" (Outros) Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal

Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Centro de Investigação e de Tecnologias Agro-Ambientais e Biologicas, Portugal

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2021/08/29 "Afinal, as preguiças não produzem a hormona do sono"; Público newspaper; News report on the article "Convergent Cortistatin losses parallel modifications in circadian rhythmicity and energy homeostasis in Cetacea and other mammalian lineages" published in Genomics (DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2020.11.002) Público (Portugal)
2021/08/10 "Sabia que os espermatozoides dos golfinhos usam a gordura para nadar?"; National Geographic Portugal; News report on the article "A drastic shift in the energetic landscape of toothed whale sperm cells" published in Current Biology (DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.05.062). National Geographic Portugal
2021/06/29 "É sobretudo gordura que os espermatozóides dos golfinhos usam para nadar"; Público newspaper; News report on the article "A drastic shift in the energetic landscape of toothed whale sperm cells" published in Current Biology (DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.05.062). Público (Portugal)
2021/03/16 ""Genes perdidos" são uma forma de evolução da espécie dos cetáceos"; National Geographic; News report on the article "Losing Genes: The Evolutionary Remodeling of Cetacea Skin" (DOI:10.3389/fmars.2020.592375) published in Frontiers in Marine Science. National Geographic
2019/05/21 " O que há de tão especial na pele dos golfinhos e das baleias?"; Público newspaper; News report on the articles "Complete inactivation of sebum-producing genes parallels the loss of sebaceous glands in Cetacea" published in Molecular Biology and Evolution (DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msz068) and "Convergent inactivation of the skin-specific C-C motif chemokine ligand 27 in mammalian evolution" published in Immunogenetics (DOI: 10.1007/s00251-019-01114-z) Público (Portugal)
2019/02/27 "Por que é que as baleias e golfinhos dormem à vez só com metade do cérebro?"; Público newspaper; News report on the article "The singularity of Cetacea behaviour parallels the complete inactivation of melatonin gene modules" published in Genes (DOI: 10.3390/genes10020121) Público (Portugal)

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2023 - Current Toxics MDPI
2021 - 2021 Molecular Biology and Evolution Oxford Academic
2021 - 2021 Antioxidants MDPI
2021 - 2021 Life MDPI
2021 - 2021 Scientific Reports Nature
2021 - 2021 Molecules MDPI
2021 - 2021 Acta Histochemica Elsevier
2021 - 2021 Molecular Neurobiology Springer
2020 - 2021 International Journal of Molecular Sciences MDPI
2018 - 2021 Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part B: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Elsevier
2020 - 2020 Bioengineered (2165-5987) Taylor & Francis
2020 - 2020 Genetica Springer
2020 - 2020 Gene Elsevier
2019 - 2020 Cells (2073-4409) MDPI AG
2019 - 2019 Marine Pollution Bulletin (0025-326X) Elsevier
2019 - 2019 Marine Drugs (1660-3397) MDPI AG
2016 - 2018 Aquatic Toxicology (0166-445X) Elsevier

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2013 - Current Member of the jury in several hiring competitions--technicians and assistant researchers. Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal

Award

2023 IACOBUS - paper award
IACOBUS - Protocolo de Cooperação Cultural, Científica e Pedagógica (Galicia-Norte de Portugal), Spain
2021 IACOBUS - paper award
IACOBUS - Protocolo de Cooperação Cultural, Científica e Pedagógica (Galicia-Norte de Portugal), Spain